Portions of Interstate 35 are reopened Saturday morning.
Track DOT's plows on an interactive map. Power outages: MidAmerican | Alliant | Co-op. Iowa road conditions from DOT, which includes information on tow bans. Important weather links for easy reference: More: Ahead of Iowa's snow storm, these Des Moines-area schools cancel classes, announce early outs Share your snow photos: Email your best photos from Friday's snowstorm and they may run online and in print. Snowfall rates were expected to reach three-fourths to an inch per hour, the NWS said, with rates of more than an inch per hour possible at times. Saturday for more than a dozen central Iowa counties, including Polk, Dallas, Story, Jasper, Madison and Warren. But they were all fun.Watch Video: Winter driving tips: Staying safe on icy, snowy roads in IowaĮditor's note - As part of a winter storm that could bring up to 11 inches to parts of Iowa, the Register is providing free, updated coverage throughout Friday and Saturday.Ī winter storm warning was allowed to expire at 6 a.m. There were other big crowds, like in California and New York, but they saw so much Navy that they weren’t the die-hard fans that you’d find in the Midwest. You would have thought we had won World War Three. About that time the crowd broke through the barrier, the snow fence, and we shut down. Then we realized we were sinking in to the hot asphalt taxiway that was not built to handle heavy jets. We managed not to run off the runway, but while taxiing back in echelon we kept getting slower and slower. We were not scheduled to land there because the runway was only 5,000 feet or so, but our public affairs officer radioed us about the enthusiastic crowd so we decided to land. There were probably ten or twenty thousand people in Mason City, so it was obvious that they had drawn people from all over the state. We flew over the field for our opening maneuver and it looked like a million people. We flew out of a base around Minneapolis on one of those crystal clear days. 
As a result an appearance of the Blue Angels was a major event. They didn’t see a lot of Navy planes and in those days didn’t see many military aviators at all. I like the Midwest most because of their enthusiasm. "Did you have a particular place that you liked to perform?
We recently came across this interview with a former Blue Angel pilot from the late 1950s, Bob Rasmussen.
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